Fighter Pilots
"Top Gun" is the common name for the US Navy Figher Weapons School that was used to train pilots some improved methods of air combat. The school used skilled instructors to fly the "enemy" aircraft, which included an assortment of aircraft that fly like the Russian airplanes. Top Gun was training only and was not a real combat.
Top Gun Pilots
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Tom cruise, Val kilmer
Maverick, Ice Man, Goose, Viper,
Only the best graduates from the Top Gun Flight School for Muslim Extremists are considered.
Today's jets would not have guns on them, and there would not have been a gunfighter school for fighter pilots (Top Gun and Red Flag).
This was an indication adopted by some Fighter Pilots, so they could be distinguished from other pilots. I.e. Bomber pilots
Tank crewman, infantrymen, sailors, artillerymen, etc. can be trained in 8 to 16 weeks. It takes years to train top notch military pilots. The Battle of Midway took away the "cream of the crop" of their combat pilots and air crewmen (fighter pilots, dive bomber pilots and rear gunners, torpedo bomber pilots and gunners and torpedomen). Japan should have trained more pilots than it did. But apparently, Japan did not think that they would lose so many pilots during the war. From Midway afterwards, for the most part, inexperienced (naval) pilots would be fighting against the US and it's allies.
You go in the luggage car and the hatch on top is open. Go on top.
No, Tom Cruise starred in Top Gun.